A summer of game industry hype season kicked off in Los Angeles today with a two-hour demonstration of new games that culminated with the first full trailer for Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth.
Why it matters: In lieu of the once-annual E3 show at the Los Angeles Convention Center, game publishers are participating in or hosting a batch of smaller events to reveal and promote many of the biggest games slated for the next year.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a plan to employees on Thursday that will see it put generative AI text, image and video generators into its flagship products, such as Facebook and Instagram.
Why it matters: Facebook's parent company has been at the forefront of generative AI research, but has been somewhat slow to put those technologies into its products.
Google on Thursday said it will finally debut its News Showcase product in the U.S. this summer, years after initially launching it in other countries.
Federal Courts have essentially punted on a case against a small crypto application called PoolTogether.
Why it matters: A ruling was supposed to provide some sense of how courts viewed the decentralization claims of projects like this one, but — since the case was simply dismissed on grounds of standing — the world is no clearer on this point either.
Google has a new plan to help organizations apply basic security controls to their artificial intelligence systems and protect them from a new wave of cyber threats.
Why it matters: The new conceptual framework, first shared with Axios, could help companies quickly secure the AI systems against hackers trying to manipulate AI models or steal the data the models were trained on.
New AI-generated algorithms can find novel ways to perform fundamental computing tasks — like sorting data up to 70% faster than existing human-written code.
Why it matters: As computer chips approach their physical limits, computer scientists are searching for ways to optimize computer code to speed up computing.
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